After Ten Millennia in Hell-Chapter 67Epilogue - Excursion (5)

“What?”

“S-Si-Ah?”

The two boys were left dumbfounded by Kim Si-Ah’s shocking statement. She realized what she had said only after she noticed Jeon Yeong-Woong and Oh Kang-Hyun staring at her.

“A-A childhood boyfriend! I meant a childhood boyfriend!”

‘What is a childhood boyfriend?’

“Argh! This is all your fault, Oh Kang-Hyun!” she shouted.

“What? What did I do—”

“Shut up!” Si-Ah shouted and kicked Kang-Hyun’s thigh.

“Ow!”

“Hmph, don’t be such a baby. I didn’t kick you that hard.”

“I got a bruise there from the beating I got!”

“Oh...”

“Oh?”

“I-I mean, ahem. Why are you going around taking beatings?”

“Do you seriously think I wanted to?”

“Hmph. You should’ve taken your sister and run away if you couldn’t win.”

“No way... How could I just leave you here and run away?”

“Wh-What are you talking about?”

Si-Ah’s cheeks turned pink and she kicked Kang-Hyun’s thigh again.

“Ow!” Kang-Hyun screamed again.

“You bastards...”

Yeong-Woong gritted his teeth after being reduced from the mastermind to a B-list extra. He boiled with anger as he watched the cringeworthy scene.

‘Why is that maggot next to Kim Si-Ah and not me?’

Yeong-Woong was the chosen one. He was born with everything he could ever want and was worshiped his whole life. Not just the kids his age but even adults several times older than him bowed down to him. His life befitted the name Yeong-Woong which his father gave him.

“Kim... Si-Ah.”

He recalled the day he first met Si-Ah. She exuded an elegant aura unlike the girls his age who only knew how to cry. It might sound like he was exaggerating but Si-Ah was as beautiful as a goddess from heaven. He thought no other girl would be more perfect to be by his side.

However, the one by her side was not a chosen individual like Yeong-Woong— it was a mere honor student who only knew how to study; someone who could never reach his level.

“Why...”

Whoooom!

Enormous mana flowed out of the stigmata and resonated with his Player Trait, creating powerful psychokinetic balls. Yeong-Woong could just barely create one ball with his mana before being bestowed the stigmata, but that was not the case anymore.

“WHY IS IT HIM AND NOT ME?!” he shouted as the psychokinetic balls around him fired with a thunderous boom.

Slash!

The blazing blue sword energy sliced the psychokinetic balls flying at them.

“What in the world is he talking about?” asked Si-Ah incomprehensibly as she turned to Kang-Hyun and frowned.

Yeong-Woong made no sense to Si-Ah since she had no idea how he felt about her.

“Oh, uhh...” Kang-Hyun slurred with an awkward expression, not sure whether to tell her.

“Hm?” Si-Ah tilted her head as she stared at Kang-Hyun having difficulty answering. She then realized something, making her face grow pale. “Wait a second... does Jeon Yeong-Woong... like me?”

“...”

Kang-Hyun nodded in silence.

“Hah,” Si-Ah scoffed as she grimaced and glared at Yeong-Woong in disgust.

He had the gall to ask her why she had chosen Kang-Hyun instead of him after stuffing envelopes filled with dead bugs in her desk drawer.

“Why would I ever want you as my boyfriend?”

“Ngh... I-I...”

“I’d rather eat live bugs than go out with you.”

“...”

Her words expressed unfathomable disgust since she was so terrified of bugs that she fell into panic whenever she saw them.

“Kim Si-Ah...”

“Could you not call my name? You’re making me want to barf.”

“Y-You bitch!” Yeong-Woong grimaced intensely and spread out his arms. “You said you’d rather eat bugs than go out with me, right?”

Vwee—!

The stigmata on his chest shone with impure blue light and tens of thousands of flies flew toward him.

“Fine, I’ll let you eat as much of them as you like, so think again about which is better!”

Tens of thousands— no, millions of flies flew at Si-Ah.

“Si-Ah!” shouted Kang-Hyun.

He quickly tried to stand up, worrying she might panic again, but Si-Ah pointed her sword at the swarm of flies.

“Heavenly Dragon Sword Technique, Third Form,” she recited coldly. “Rampage.”

Slash—!!!

Blue sword energy waves bloomed like flowers. The millions of flies flying at her got caught in the storm of sword energy and fell to the ground.

“Si-Ah...?”

Kang-Hyun stared wide-eyed at Si-Ah facing the swarm of flies with her sword. She couldn’t move from just a caterpillar on her shoulder a while ago but was perfectly fine now.

‘Did she get used to them after seeing so many of them? No, there’s no way.’

“Ngh... Argh...”

Si-Ah stood strong and continued to swing her sword despite her legs trembling uncontrollably. If she retreated, the flies would go for Kang-Hyun behind her. She did not know what happened between him and Yeong-Woong but Yeong-Woong treated him like his mortal enemy.

‘That’s why...’

She needed to endure it— for the sake of the boy who supported her when the weight of being the Martial God’s daughter was crushing her. Kang-Hyun had become a special person in her heart before she had realized it.

“It’s pointless to resist,” said Yeong-Woong, smiling as he stared at Si-Ah frantically swinging her sword against the fly army.

The flies created with the Musca stigmata were not intended to instill fear in Si-Ah. The primary reason humans despised flies was that they carried disease—the true power of the Musca stigmata.

“Urgh... Haugh!”

Si-Ah’s swings gradually slowed down. More sweat trickled from her forehead to her chin and she panted heavily. Her light bamboo sword felt as heavy as a rebar.

“You can feel your body getting heavier, can’t you?” said Yeong-Woong.

The power of disease and decay caused mere flies to become targets of fear. Thousands of fly corpses fell to the ground with each of Si-Ah’s swings but each of them exuded the energy of disease at their death.

“Haaah, haaah!” Si-Ah panted heavily as the energy of disease weighed her down.

She tried to use a foot technique to escape it.

“Hehehe. Do you think I’ll let you escape?”

Yeong-Woong used psychokinesis to control the energy of disease, making it difficult for her to escape his domain.

“Hahaha! Do you get it now? This is the reason why he has chosen me!”

The greatest weakness of disease was diffusion. No matter how fatal the disease was, its effectiveness was drastically reduced over a wide area.

‘But with my ability...’

If Yeong-Woong combined his psychokinesis and the stigmata’s power, he could freely control the spread of disease.

“You can’t escape it no matter how much you resist!”

“Ngh...!”

The energy of disease accumulated inside her each time she breathed. Her pale complexion gradually grew darker and the speed of her swings decreased.

“Haaah!”

Clatter!

Si-Ah dropped her bamboo sword. She panted painfully and collapsed.

“Hah...” Yeong-Woong smirked as he looked down at the collapsed SI-Ah. “H-Hahaha! I won! I beat the Martial God’s daughter!”

He burst into crazed laughter with his arms out wide.

“Do you see this, Oh Kang-Hyun?! This is the power of the hero chosen by God!”

“...”

Kang-Hyun stood up in silence as he stared at the collapsed Si-Ah panting painfully. The energy of disease that Yeong-Woong spread affected him as well, so simply standing up used all of his strength and his legs shook intensely.

“Jeon... Yeong-Woong.”

However, he stood up anyway despite swaying. He planted his feet firmly on the ground.

“Hah, what’s this? You refuse to watch your girlfriend be defeated, is that it?”

Yeong-Woong clicked his tongue and snapped his fingers. A psychokinetic ball filled with the energy of disease shot at Kang-Hyun and smashed into him.

“Kurgh!”

Kang-Hyun vomited blood but he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

“Pfft! You’re tough, I’ll give you that! Oh, how about this, then?” Yeong-Woong stretched out his arms after thinking of a good idea.

The unconscious Si-Ah and Kang-Hee floated in midair via his psychokinesis.

He smiled wickedly and asked, “Your girlfriend or your sister? Choose.”

“You...”

“I’ll spare the one you choose.”

“...”

Si-Ah or Kang-Hee— who would he save?

“...”

His mind felt hot as if a hot iron was stuffed into his head. His pounding heart deafened his ears.

‘I can only save one? There’s no way I can choose between them.’

“A-Aaaahh.”

Ba-dump. Ba-dump. Ba-dump.

His heartbeats grew stronger— along with desire so blazing that it felt like it was evaporating the moisture inside him.

“Ah—”

A massive Door wrapped in red chains appeared before him.